Section: US & Canada

With European soccer’s continental showpiece reeling from hooliganism outbreaks, Germany and Ukraine served up an entertaining game that was high on technical ability and no little drama on the pitch. …read more Source:...

Jacob Heilbrunn isn’t impressed with the House Republicans’ proposals on foreign policy: Instead of a far-sighted document that sets out a fresh course for American foreign policy, it offers a mishmash of neocon foreign-policy bilge that has already led the GOP and the United States badly astray. Heilbrunn is right in dismissing what...

I was driving from Sarasota, Florida, to Washington in the pre-dawn hours Sunday morning when my iPhone chirped a news alert. More than 50 people dead at a nightclub shooting in Orlando. The deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. And later, news that the gunman reportedly called 911 to declare his loyalty to Islamic State before committing the...

Germany began its campaign to add the 2016 European Championship to its 2014 World Cup with a 2-0 victory over Ukraine on Sunday, while England and Russia were threatened with expulsion from the tournament …read more Source: U.S....

The Russian performance artist Petr Pavlensky, who set fire to the entrance of the infamous FSB building in Lubyanka Square in Moscow, was found guilty and convicted to a half million ruble fine ($7,600) by a Moscow court this past week. Pavlensky had spent seven months under arrest after he burned the door of the building which has long been the...

Germany began its campaign to add the 2016 European Championship to its 2014 World Cup with a promising 2-0 victory over Ukraine on Sunday, while England and Russia were threatened with expulsion from the tournament. …read more Source: FOX...

PARIS (AP) — France’s government vowed Sunday to expel foreign football hooligans, saying their violence during the European Championship is distracting police from the fight against terrorism. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said he instructed local officials to issue expulsion orders for “all foreign supporters whose behavior disturbs...

Donald Trump’s success in the U.S. is not unique. Europe is being buffeted by similar populist currents. Illiberal, nationalist governments rule Hungary and Poland. Austria nearly elected a right-wing nationalist as president. Anti-EU leftists share power in Portugal. Swiss voters have targeted immigration and Islam. The Dutch recently...

PARIS (AP) — Football hooliganism has been making a comeback at the European Championship and is challenging French authorities who have struggled to deal with the sudden surge in violence. England and Russia were threatened with expulsion from Euro 2016 by UEFA on Sunday if there is further violence from their fans during the tournament. Clashes...